Community Life Survey
This chart represents the ages of attending church members across Victoria and Tasmania EMMET O’CUANA For the fifth year running, synod operations has canvassed congregations in Victoria and Tasmania inviting submi
Context and Contingency
Is there any theology that does not have a context? Is there any theology which can avoid a hermeneutic of suspicion? Clearly, the answer to both these questions is ‘no’.
Universal truth?
REVIEW BY NICK MATTISKE BOOK | INVENTING THE UNIVERSE: WHY WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE, FAITH AND GOD | ALISTER MCGRATH Confronting the New Atheists is a bit like tidying up after toddlers.
All creatures
REVIEW BY REV IAN SMITH BOOK | ANIMALS IN RELIGION | REV BARBARA ALLEN This book is timely; in the midst of the growing global concern around climate change and the future of our world as we know and understand it, Barba
Bali beyond the beaches and bars
Rev Ketut Sudiana, Irene Deborah, Made Effrayim Arifin. Irene Deborah was completely unprepared for what happened when the Jeep window was wound down in Sepang village, northern Bali a few months ago.
Pedalling a message of inclusion
DEB BENNETT If the thought of cycling more than 500 kilometres sends a lazy shudder up your spine, spare a thought for a group of 18 Australians who recently pedalled their way across Cambodia and Vietnam.
Highway to Nell
Nell, Let There Be Robe, 2012 REVIEW BY GARTH JONES EXHIBITION | NEϟLL | SHEPPARTON ART MUSEUM The Maitland raised, Sydney-based Nell opened her eponymous show at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) last month.
Conversation or conflict?
PENNY MULVEY Crosslight published a letter from Rev David Brown with the heading ‘Learning from Islam’ in our October edition.
College trail a blooming success
Cornish College’s Indigenous Plant Trail has been recognised in the 2016 Victoria Schools Garden Awards. It is in the running for a state award in the Most Engaging Student Garden for Teaching category.
Back to first principles
After 17 years working for synod, the last 10 as executive director of the Commission for Mission, Rev David Pargeter is, in some ways, starting again.
November 2016 Synod Snaps
Hamilton KUCA (Kids of the Uniting Church in Australia) recreated the story of Joseph.